Treasury Bars U.S. Citizens From Dealing With Gbagbo

The U.S. Treasury Department has barred Americans from conducting financial or commercial transactions with former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, his wife and three advisers, and may soon seek United Nations sanctions on them.

“Today’s designations will isolate him and his inner circle from the world’s financial system and underscore the desire of the international community that he step down,” Adam J. Szubin, director of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, said in a statement today.